Notes from ‘Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender ‘

What is race discrimination?

This is when you are treated differently because of your race

In the Equality Act, race can mean your colour, or your nationality (including your citizenship). It can also mean your ethnic or national origins, which may not be the same as your current nationality. For example, you may have Chinese national origins and be living in Britain with a British passport.

This happens when someone treats you worse than another person in a similar situation because of your race. For example:

• if a letting agency would not let a flat to you because of your race, this would be direct race discrimination（Equality And Human Rights Commission, 2020)

Shirley A. Jackson, Martha Bremser, and Lorna Sanders

I then discuss the reality, fl uidity, and implications of race, class, gender, and nationality in my own life. Finally, drawing upon my teaching experience in four different institutions, I discuss the challenges, possibilities, and adventures of teaching race, class, and gender-b ased inequality. I highlight how the race, class, and gender of the class community interact or manifest in the classroom when teaching about racism, classism, and sexism.

The book mentioned a documentary which is authoritative and famous  entitled Race: The Power of an Illusion , features the scientific fact that there is no race gene and there is no biological basis for categorizing people into different racial groups (California Newsreel 2003).

I found a free version

here is notes from the documentary：

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1. Human beings are different one from the other our eyes confirm this day and day out. Skin color, body shape, hair form, eye shape for several hundred years we have used these visual differences to classify people into four or five groups. We call races.
2. the idea of race assumes that simple external differences rooted in biology are linked to other more complex internal differences like athletic ability, musical aptitude, intelligence, this belief is based on the idea that race is biologically real
3. They cannot find any genetic markers that are in everybody of a particular race and in nobody of some other race. We cannot find any genetic markers that define race(Pilar Ossorio, Legal Scholar, Microbiologist)
4. Code Spring Harbor labs Scott Bronson led an DNA Workshop. They gather students’ DNA who have different skin color and race. It shows that the skin color and race is not related to DNA.
5. Race rather an idea that we ascribe to biology. But race biology is ferociously persistent on America’s playing fields .

• Chinese at the bottom of the social and political hierarchy in 20th
• white racial purity/ racial purification was one aim of the eugenics优生学 movement.
• mendelian genetics 孟德尔遗传学